nomination for president. political correspondent jan crawford is in washington with the latest. jan, what do you know? >> reporter: well, scott, after months and months of teasing people with would she run or would she not run? >> sarah palin has just released a statement. let me read it for you. "after much paper and serious consideration, i have decided i will not be seeking the 2012 g.o.p. nomination." she goes on to say, "as always my family comes first" she gave it a great deal and thought and then she said in the statement she believes she could be, "more effective in a decisive role to help other true public servants to office," suggesting she sees her role now as an outsider, something that could potentially be more powerful. this was something that palin alluded to last week during an interview with fox news where she started speculating about whether or not the title of president of the united states could be too shackling for her. she said, "i like to go maverick, i like to go rogue" suggesting then she may not be

running for president and now she has just confirmed it. she will remain an outsider but of course someone with a tremendous impact on this field to come. >> pelley: in new york city it started small two and a half weeks another a few dozen protesters camped out near wall street, demonstrating against what they call corporate greed. but it's been growing ever since with folks from all over the country joining in. and today, the crowds swelled dramatically as labor unions and college students added their voiceez. michelle miller is at the park where it all began. michelle, what's happening? >> reporter: well, the hand full of protesters that started this demonstration some three weeks ago call it "occupy wall street" and with each passing day that they're here, they're gaining momentum and new recruits. >> you know, it's time. it's really time. >> reporter: mike mulgrew is president of the united federation of teachers. >> end the war, tax the rich! >> reporter: which along with steam teamsters, alto workers

and a dozen other unions, joined today's march. >> people have had it it. they're done with this. they know the country is said haded in the wrong direction. >> show me what democracy looks like! >> reporter: the addition of organized labor may sharpep the focus of a self-staten island movement that up until now was united against what they call corporate greed but absent clear demands or goals. >> wall street is responsible for the economic crisis, and they're asking people like me to pay for it. i'm andrew from madison, wisconsin. >> reporter: yesterday we met 24-year-old andrew cole who is out of work and in student lone debt. he took a bus from madison, wisconsin to join the three-week-old protest which began with a few dozen people. now hundreds are camping out in this private park just blocks from wall street. >> there should be some kind of legal or at least a evenly reckoning for wall street with with with with wall street. there should be more bankers in jail. >> reporter: the protesters have been brought together by twitter and facebook. craig bethel is from pittsburgh.

>> reporter: how long can this sustain itself? >> this can sustain itself as long as it needs to because we're completely self-sustainable. we don't rely on the environment around us. >> reporter: they haveave food court, medical unit, and public a daily newspaper called "the occupied "wall street journal"." >> where are the jobs they have created? all they create is money for themselves. >> reporter: 69-year-old patricia walsh came from denver. she protested the democratic convention back in 1968. >> these kids are right on target about how our country has to change, and they have good heart. >> reporter: scott, by the look of it, it doesn't appear to be ending any time soon. and protesters say they will remain here at this small park through winter. >> pelley: thanks, michelle. the protests are spreading. there were demonstrations in more than a dozen cities, including boston, baltimore, chicago, denver, los angeles, san francisco, and seattle.

in some places, there were only a few protesters, but in others, there were several thousands. in new york city, the police are trying to make sure the protests don't get out of hand as they have from time to time here in the europe. the n.y.p.d. is using a controversial crowd control technique and we'll asked jim axelrod to show us how it works. >> reporter: last saturday afternoon, occupy wall street protesters gathered at the foot of the brooklyn bridge where police warned them not to go any further. >> if you refuses to leave you will be placed under arrest and charged with disorderly conduct. >> reporter: protesters continued to march anyway with officers in front in what looked like a police escort. cbs news producer paula reid, shown here, was covering the story. >> and then there was a barricade about a 30 of the way across, police, police vehicles, and then in the back of the protest, they unraveled an orange gate and put that across the back of the protest. >> that netting, that fencing.

>> exactly, yeah. >> reporter: 700 protesters were penned in and then arrested. did you feel in any way that the police department acted in a way that was dishonest? >> no, i wouldn't call it dishonest, i but i would say it's contradictory. you say don't walk on this bridge. it's illegal. you'll be arrested but then you walk with them. you lead them. >> reporter: the technique is called corralling. protesters are isolated by police and left to either stand for hours or be arrested. it's not new. washington, d.c. police used it in the spring of 2000 when protests got out of hand. >> as far as the idea of coralling and arresting that group, after the notification was made and after they remained on the roadway, i see nothing wrong with it. >> reporter: former new york city police commissioner william bratton of the kroll security firm says the idea is to defuse tension. >> we have come a long way from the days when water hoses and dogs were routinely used to control crowdses and the use of

batons was routine. >> reporter: the courts will sort out whether what happened last saturday on the brooklyn bridge violated and constitutional protection to assemble. scott, one lawsuit has already been filed. >> pelley: thanks, jim. at the heart of the protests, of course, is unemployment, and we got mixed news on that today. the payroll firm a.d.p. says private businesses added 91,000 jobs in september, but a separate report showed companies announced more than 115,000 layoffs last month. a two and a half year high, a big reduction in military jobs and layoffs at bank of america accounted for most of the cuts. here in europe, the debt crisis is a growing drag on the world's economy, and today, the international monetary fund called on european leaders to shore up their banks. greece, portugal, ireland, italy, and spain are all in danger of defaulting on their debt. we asked mark phillips to keep track of this fast-developing

story. >> reporter: in greece, economic riots have become the new national sport, the frustration among those who see no gain to the pain they've been forced to endure again spilled on to athen's main square. the government has been forced to bring in more austeritiy measures -- wage cuts, tax increases, public sector layoffs-- to satisfy the european creditors who are trying to bail it out. and the result was eye national strike and this. the fear is of contagion, that if athens defaults on its debt, which is about 1 and a half times the size of its economy-- and many think default is inevitable-- what happens in italy, where the debt is 120% of economic output and where the country's credit rating has just been lowered by a second agency. britain's prime minister says the economic dominoes could be set to fall. >> the euro zone is in crisis. the french and the german economies have slowed to a standstill.

even mighty america is questioned about her debt. >> reporter: not quite panic has set in on the evenly trading floors of london, but something like it. >> the sums of money involved are mind-boggling to bail out the european banking industry. we're talking 100, 200, 300 billion euro. wow! that's a big number. >> reporter: really big about $400 billion. the crisis has gone from small banks to big banks, from small countries to big countries. the bailout sums being talked about are enormous, but the commodity that has grown most over the euro crise is fear, fear that credit on world markets is slowing down again, fear that the economic and social breakdown that has been evident in greece is just the beginning. greece has become europe's basket case in the major economic powers here, britain, france, and especially germany, are grappling with the issue as to how far and how long to carry

it, and especially, scott, what happens if they don't. >> pelley: mark, thank you. wall street brushed aside doubts about the economy again today. the dow gained 131 point, most of it in the last hour of trading. a pioneer of the civil rights movement has died. we have a rare look at a fallen hero's homecoming. and we're on patrol in afghanistan where american soldiers worry about every step they take when the cbs evening news continues.

>> pelley: friday friday is the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan so we've been doing more reporting from there this week. some people wonder why the war is faking so long. we got a good sense of one reason when we went on a patrol with a platoon led by a young american lieutenant in the fields and villages of kandahar province. greg durso from lynbrook, new york, is in two amongst into his tour. as a lieutenant in the 287th infantry, he leads his own platoon, 40 americans and 30 afghan soldiers. what has been your worst day? >> i think any leader can say that his worst day is when-- is when you lose euro men. you're given this gift of these american sons, and their

families entrust their lives to you. but this is war. i mean, there are some things you just cannot avoid, and losing people feels like losing your own children. >> pelley: durso's lost two men, both to homemade land mines. they find dozens of them every week. if it seems we've been in afghanistan a long time, watch these boots. you don't cover much ground when you worry over every step. s it might take hours to cross 100 yards. the new lieutenant has learned, leave the path, go the hard way. >> better wet than dead. >.>> pelley: the home made mines dont spark underwater. >> if you can walk through water the whole time, you'll do it. >> pelley: durso went to west point because he wanted to serve in afghanistan. when we asked him why, he told us about a childhood friend who waited for a father who would never come home.

>> the day after 9/11, i remember being at her house, and she got real quiet and she eventually looked back at me and said, "who's going to walk me down the aisle when i get married?" it wasn't just an event to me. it was people. it was my own people, my own town. to be able to see something like that and still decide not to do anything was like ludicrous to me. >> pelley: now he's learning this new terrain, like the long mud walls that support the grape rows here, they hide the enemy and slow the march. one of the unique things about fighting in this part of afghanistan are these structures that are called grape huts. this is why where the farmers in this region take their grapes and dry them into the raisins that this part of afghanistan is famous for, but the insidious thing for u.s. forces is these grape hut walls, these mud walls are more than two feet thick. the american rifle cannot penetrate this, and, yet, there are all of these slits that are just perfect for snipers. the troops find weapons caches

in grape huts. >> four, five, six, seven, eight grenade fuses. >> pelley: and the huts are often booby trapped, so durso's men clear them with explosives. while durso steps lightly he also walks a fine line, protecting his men often alienates the farmers he's trying to win over. this man's house was damagedly in the mine-clearing explosion. he tells the soldiers "my house is destroyed." he's exaggerating. the damage to his house was small and the soldiers will pay him. but if you ask why the path in afghanistan is so long, one lieutenant will tell you it's too steps forward and one step back. >> if i destroy a grape hut, in the long run does that help or hurt me? okay, yeah, maybe in the short run i got rid of two insurgents. great. you might have found a cache. but then, weeks down the road, does that hurt you when those farmers who own that grape hut are saying these guys blew up my

livelihood? this is a process that requires a people's change of heart, and that is not something you see overnight. >> pelley: lieutenant durso is on an eight-year enlistment. he added three years to get the army's begunked that he would be in the infantry in afghanistan. the perilous progress of engineers inspecting the earthquake-damaged washington monument when we return.

>> pelley: cbs news correspondent sharyl at i can son helped uncover the gun walking scandal in which agents from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms allowed gupgup into mexico. tonight there is new fallout. 11 officials involved in the operation have been reassigned. the bureau's acting director said, "we're going to hit the reset button." for the last week, the best spectacle in washington, d.c. was watch, the inspection of the washington monument. today, engineers who have been rapelling down the obelisk checking for earthquake damage finished the job. there's no word yet on how much the repairs will cost or when the monument will reopen to visitors. we learned today of the passing of a civil rights pioneer, the reverend can the shuref fred sh. in the 50s and 60s he survived a bomb attack, was beaten and blasted with

firehoses as a freedom marcher and then he was arrested dozens of times. a steen 61 cbs documentary described him as the man most feared by southern racists. reverend shuttles worth died this morning at an alabama hospital. he was 89. a hero comes home for the last time and an entire community pays tribute when he come back.

>> pelley: we've been at war 10 years in afghanistan and in iraq. the number of americans who have given their lives comes to 6,278. we asked byron pitt pitts to introduce us to one of these americans and follow him on his final journey home. >> i caught something out of the corner of my eye. and when i looked up, there they were. >> reporter: two men in uniform and you knew. >> i knew when i seen them they were there to tell me that my husband had been killed. >> reporter: surana prince's husband was 28-year-old sergeant michael prince of the oklahoma national guard, a family man, a local policeman who joined the guard 11 years ago.

he died in afghanistan three weeks ago. >> never in my 27 years of life would i ever thought i would have been a widow. >> reporter: a rocket-propelled grenade took his life and changed hers. i understand you collapsed. >> i hit my knees. >> reporter: then what happened? >> they came in and shattered my world. >> reporter: it's bitter news the military delivers the same way each time. a service member of equal or higher rank and a chaplain show up in uniform. there have been 12 such notifications in sergeant prince's unit since july. and that's how it begins, what the military calls the dignify the transfer. from the battlefield in afghanistan to dover airbase to sergeant prince's home state of oklahoma. a service member stood by his side, part of the soldier's creed "leave no man behind."

>> my god! >> reporter: cbs news was granted rare access to this military tradition with the permission of sergeant prince's widow. when the sergeant's remains arrived at the oklahoma city airport, his wife, his family, and close friends were waiting. there was grief and pride in equal measure. what did you say to your husband today when you were at the airport? it's like you two were talking for a while. >> they just loved him. he was my best friend. and that i was sorry that those cowards did to him what they did. and that there was nothing that i could do to make him better. >> reporter: neighbors couldn't make it better, either, but thousands tried. for 38 and a half miles, sergeant prince's body was transferred to his hometown of minco. oklahomans lined the highways, back roads, small towns.

school was let out early. businesses closed. for nearly an hour, friends, neighbors, strangers stood still. >> to see people that i've never met, never seen a day in my life, cry for the life of my husband because he was lost and died for their freedom made me feel really proud. >> reporter: such a personal hurt like this, why talk to us? >> because i think it's important that people know what goes on after the knock at the door. >> reporter: the dignified transfer ends with a funeral. a purple heart for the warrior's widow and heart broken for their loved ones left behind. ( "taps" ). >> it is my distinct honor and privilege to present this flag on behalf of the president of the united states, the secretary of the army, and the people of the grateful nation.

>> reporter: what do you want america ton about your husband? >> that he's a hero. >> reporter: and not the last one. within hours of sergeant michael prince's burial, before the sun would set over his grave, another member of his national guard unit was killed in afghanistan. byron pitts, cbs news, minco, oklahoma. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for our team here in london and for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org [ male announcer ] at the safeway pharmacy you can get a flu shot with no hassle at all. i don't even need an appointment. [ male announcer ] it's about as easy as flu shots get. get your groceries and a flu shot, all in one trip.

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